There are things known and there are things unknown and in between are the doors.
What Trump told supporters before many stormed Capitol Hill – ABC News (go.com)
While the National Park Service no longer counts rally attendance, it’s estimated that as many as 100K people attended. It’s difficult to figure out an exact number [1] but we can make some estimations. How To Talk To Kids About The Riots In The U.S. Capitol | Morning Edition (see the top photograph). In this photo we can see about 50–60 people in the rotunda, and considering there were almost certainly small groups that went directly to the Houses of Congress and were not photographed here, Based on FBI/DOJ review of video and open files, the last count was 167 people who “invaded” the Capitol, many of them politely staying within the lovely velvet ropes and taking selfies of themselves inside the Rotunda. Damn, this is one rowdy bunch!!!
It was a protest and the democrats spun it to fit their narrative.
The press misused the term to imply an attempt to overthrow the U.S. Government,
which it wasn’t. An emotionally charged demonstration that went too far, okay. A day that a protest turned violent and a lot of dumbasses ruined it for the rest of us. But not an insurrection. Here is what that day that the MSM did not show the public…Note the child at the end taking a selfie. It was almost entirely peaceful given the attendance level. It was anything but an insurrection.
The vast majority of the 6 or 7 thousand attended, stayed outside to protest peacefully.
The majority of those who went in, only guilty of trespass. Hardly insurrection. Not nearly
as bad as what Antifa and BLM do! Antifa & BLM Militants Draw AR-15 and AK-47 on Portland Motorists; Antifa is Now Removing Motorists From Their Cars at Gunpoint – YouTube
Police On Scene As Reign Of Terror Continues. WTF LEFTIES
They certainly should’ve known better, but in all fairness the entire country watched people storm gov’t buildings, burn, loot, vandalize, & kill all summer with impunity. Everything I’ve seen still indicates to me the “Trump supporters” were animated but peaceful. Agitators entered the mix and stirred-up the crowd, broke barriers/windows, and breached the Capitol. Some Trump supporters followed under the silly notion this was ok…
Merriam-Webster defines “insurrection” as: an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government. If that is the case, at least half of BLM/Antifa protests should be classified as insurrection. No, the night of November 3rd was…. So the insurrection was impeachment, virus, riots, false news reports, cover ups of real reports on Biden activity, fraudulent election and installation of the puppet dictator. I still don’t get why people didn’t get picked off right away the second they broke windows and entered the building.
The crowd was led inside by the security.
The Big Set Up: Police moving the gates and ushering people in as they stay within the ropes, taking selfies with people, censoring cell phone video from people there of suspicious activity and letting Sullivan walk hours later is not an insurrection. I think if we look at other examples of what have been accepted globally as “insurrection” then the answer is a clear no. The whole concept that it was an insurrection, was ridiculous. It was planned to continue the ouster of #45. That’s what’s referred to as a set up.
It was a day of setup and it accomplished exactly what they wanted, which was to have an excuse to not proceed in debates about the election. No definitely not. After reading the article in Time Magazine, I understand how and why everything happened like it did . No evidence of it…..Distraction aimed at a fear response…what was happening that day?
What was end result….scripted.
I don’t know if it was a set up. I know that the ability to capitalize on what happened was carried with near perfection. No if it was there would have been a bunch of armed people taking over every government building they could get into. What’s Happening to the city of Portland for the last year is though!! I’d say it depends on where the video you’ve seen was filmed and if you believe a letter that’s circulating is really from a Metropolitan police officer that describes pure hell as he and others tried to assist Capitol Police. It’s a big area and activity varies by location.
The Capitol police let all those people in as Congress was challenging the election, why was that?
Just like all the riots during summer of 2020 across the USA were peaceful protests but the politicians could plainly see that an armed insurrection is possible. Antifa infiltrated the Patriots protest at the capitol and made us look bad. Period. The liberal propaganda filled media hates America and patriots.
Name one Insurrection in world history where the participants were
COMPLETELY UNARMED!
Who is Ashli Babbitt’s husband Aaron?
Air Force vet fondly remembered as ‘strong Trump supporter’ after tragic death | MEAWW The only person killed was an UNARMED 14 year Veteran of the @usairforce
, who weighed 110 lbs., and was completely surrounded by Police Officers! #AshliBabbitt was murdered in cold blood and her husband was on (InfoWars) speaking with the Capitol Police in the lobby before the police stepped aside and let the crowd through.
Video shows moment Ashli Babbit was fatally shot in Capitol (nypost.com)
Shouts of “don’t destroy anything” could be heard throughout.!
Nobody in their right mind believes it was an insurrection. But the media & Dems propagate this false narrative to keep naïve stupid people believing Trump supporters are anarchists. Meanwhile BLM & Antifa wreak havoc in every big city in the country, but that’s okay. If over a million Patriots intended to have an insurrection there would have been over a million Patriots armed and ready to go and we would have taken back what is ours. However there were no weapons and not a single shot fired by a Patriot.
Exactly. Name a single “insurrection” where those “insurrecting” were let inside and even waved in by the government that now claimed they were “insurrected” against. It was a planned event, supported by corrupt politicians who wanted to set up Trump. I believe it was completely orchestrated by Pelosi and company led by Obama, Soros, China, BLM, and ANTIFA! Too many things don’t add up. And why haven’t our Republican leaders scrutinized the events of that day? Such fucking nonsense, but their brainless base eats it up.
The Republican never Trumper’s don’t want to expose the liberal plot behind the orchestrated chaos at the Capital or the stolen election. They would rather lose than help Trump. Our country must suffer under a Marxist regime, and the RINO’s brought us here. It was a set up, to be able to frame right wing citizens as insurrectionists, to further support the left’s narrative that ‘right wing white supremacists’ are an immediate threat to the country.
FBI Arrests LEFT-WING Activist From Capitol Riot – NO SURPRISE! – YouTube
Question for logical thought: The Senate had the votes to pause election certification & investigate the voting irregularities, why would Trump supporters want to stop this? This gave the RINOs a path to save face while changing their support for the vote. It was a day of frustration by those tired of both political parties not listening to the people. A 200 person insurrection in a city with 20,000 federal and local law enforcement officers. LMAO. An insurrection would’ve caused $2,000,000,000 in damage, like the BLM and Antifa riots.
Only a few behaved badly and there were literally thousands and thousands of people there. By watching all the video that came out, also reading that the sergeant in arm, who takes order directly from the Speaker of the house requested backup and was denied, it was a false flag to push through a fraud election that she knew evidence was going to be shown. Anyone who refers to Jan 6 as insurrection has been spoiled rotten and blind by the 21st century and doesn’t understand the historical definition of insurrection. The people who died were Trump supporters. And only one was related to the event in which an unarmed woman was shot.
Guns, Brass Knuckles, Homemade Napalm: Read Some of the Documents From Arrests After the Capitol Riot | Washingtonian (DC)
Insurrection is a very big deal and takes a shit-ton of organized armed individuals with a plan. No one was armed and the bad few were completely disorganized. It looked like a poorly enacted stunt. If you want to see insurrection just look at Seattle, Baltimore, New York, Portland, etc., where buildings were destroyed, gov’t bldgs. were attacked, buildings set fire with people in them!!!
I like how we had months of revolutionary protests/riots, well funded and well organized nationwide demonstrations….yet the unfunded, disorganized group of people who showed up at the Capitol and were literally stewarded past barricades…that was the insurrection. By MSM standards it was a very peaceful protest. Not even a single fire was set. I think that if we patriots staged an insurrection there would be many more deaths than there was on Jan 6. It would last a hell of a lot longer than 1 day. The collective energy was frustration & concern, real seriousness.
Insurrection…. They keep using that word… Now i don’t think what they think that word means is the same as what it really means… Insurrection was on Nov 3rd.. who stopped the count? But it showed Dems will not stand up for our rights. The Capitol is surrounded by the National Guard because Dems are pushing an agenda the citizens do not want & they are afraid of a real insurrection, which will come… unless big tech can stop it.
I think it was a really weird scenario and we won’t know the truth for decades.
Sadly, January 6 was the day politicians said they will not tolerate protest and would view all such displays as insurrection. They will bankrupt your ass by making you “lawyer up” while they use taxpayers dollars to prosecute you! Under Totalitarianism dissent is illegal. the real insurrection happened between 2016 to present. Democrats did everything they possibly could to disrupt disregard and dismiss anything Trump did or said.
Covid was politicized and people died… The only people who believe Jan 6
was insurrection are those who see all the murder and looting and arson that BLM and Antifa riots create and call it all a peaceful protest!!! My conservative estimate was that the Patriots outnumbered agitators 30,000 to 1 on Jan 6.
If there was an insurrection that day there would not have a single building standing that day. A prepared crowd control force for those several dozen without guns and this would be moot.
That is Some Real Vicious People Right There 
This was not, nor ever will be an insurrection. That is all.
On January 6th 0.001% of the people who showed up to peacefully protest were spurred on by known leftist activists to breach a part of the Capitol. The majority of the people who entered the Capitol were waved in by Capitol police and they wandered around and took selfies… Not even close. A few protestors who probably went too far, but certainly not insurrection. Those who damaged property or caused injury need to be prosecuted.
Right behind those in Seattle and Portland who have been far more unlawful.
I believe certain people did some nefarious things to make it look like Trump followers tried to kill people. It was evil, unpatriotic, and put on a stain on our country. Not at all. Having spent literally years near a city with repeated Antifa and anarchist riots, it wasn’t even a good effort. No fires, no thrown projectiles, no bloody noses, not much damage, and the dead person is a member of the protest crowd. For the small percentage who did conspire together ahead of time, I think seditious conspiracy charges are more appropriate. 18 U.S. Code § 2384 – Seditious conspiracy | U.S. Code | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute (cornell.edu)
It was the visible start of an ongoing civil war that is still continuing today.
Generally insurrection involved weapons and violence. Being unarmed and let in the front door wouldn’t qualify. An insurrection is not planned by the people that the insurrection is done on. If that was an insurrection then the BLM protests were a world war.
Just some people upset by a predictable political loss. A few people rioted.
More damage is done every night in Portland.
Absolutely not. It was a riot – no better or worse than all of the riots that occurred all summer long before it. Although, it did accomplish plenty for a government that wants to isolate itself behind razor wire and armed soldiers in case a REAL insurrection ever breaks out. No weapons were used, no deaths from violence. It was a “mostly peaceful “ protest by all standards imposed by the leftist protests waged over the summer of 2020. Or any standard, for that matter….Instigated by Antifa, BLM incorporated and paid for by the progressive left.
The Capitol Hill riot was an inexcusable, pathetic, and disgraceful display. Its consequences will extend well beyond the bloodshed and property damage inflicted by those who shamefully acceded to the left’s view that force is legitimate means of persuasion — exhibited repeatedly via the left’s normalization of political incitement and violence throughout President Trump’s term in office.
The riot not only overshadowed the corruption that marked the 2020 election and undermined the MAGA movement’s people and principles, but set up Americans of all political stripes for an onslaught on their rights and cherished freedoms. The riot was an accelerant for what was already likely planned under Democrat rule in Washington: crushing dissenters from its leftist orthodoxy as part of an effort to achieve total power by disenfranchising the opposition.
President Trump has personified this dissent, but the effort to delegitimize, de-platform, and ultimately destroy him and anyone around him is merely the opening scene of the “Godfather”-like settling of scores with all who threaten the ruling class’s power and privilege. This effort will directly harm not just the thousands of peaceful patriots who had descended on Washington D.C., and their tens of millions of like-minded neighbors across the country, but all Americans.
The coming crackdown on dissenters in the political realm was pre-ordained in the wee hours of Jan. 6, when both Georgia Senate seats flipped to the Democrats. Now, should Senate Democrats successfully blow up the filibuster, they will work to pass an agenda in which any one item, let alone all, could put Democrats in a virtually unshakeable control of the federal government for years to come.
They have made no secret of their agenda, which includes such items as mass amnesty for illegal aliens, statehood for Washington, D.C., statehood for Puerto Rico, and federal enshrinement of mail-in voting through a re-upped H.R. 1. Needless to say, total leftist political control will erode liberty and justice, and be used to target dissenters in cruel and unusual ways.
In the near-term, the Capitol Hill riot has served as a pretext for other corrosive political acts: calls for the 25th Amendment to remove a sitting president, a second impeachment vote; consultations between the speaker of the House and the Pentagon about preventing the president from accessing the nuclear codes and discharging his other duties; and calls by our national security and legal apparatus against conservatives and their speech — all under the pretense of combatting domestic terrorism and punishing “incitement.”
This is not purely an issue of politics, for it will encompass all of civil society.
The coming assault on dissenters will play out in arenas that far transcend our increasingly unrepresentative government. Its adjuncts in big tech, woke capital, corporate media, and beyond have already started participating in the purge, of their own volition, in a continuation of the anti-cultural revolution of summer 2020. It is nothing less than the weaponization of civil society institutions against political dissenters, in conjunction with and often indirectly supported by the state. Americans are now primed to punish their fellow Americans for Wrong think to a greater extent than we have seen before.
It will go far beyond banning the president of the United States from major social media platforms, purging countless like-minded voices, and stymieing their alternative means of communication. It will go far beyond pulling a U.S. senator’s publishing deal. It will go far beyond even firing people purportedly acting peacefully at political rallies. Ultimately, it will extend across every aspect of the digital world, and affect real life as well.
Yes, we are headed towards something like China’s “Great Firewall,” where, albeit without the power of a government gun, big tech will silence speech that challenges the ruling class’s official narratives, disappear the digital profiles of those who run afoul of its ever-changing terms of service, and take down websites where alternative ideas might proliferate.
More chilling is this thought: What is to stop the crackdown from going beyond communications to where and how you can work, bank, travel, eat, shop, obtain health insurance, and send your kids to school?
Think, for a second, about everything you do in daily life. Consider how reliant you are on goods and services controlled by entities in whole or in part run by executives who either hate your political views or think they can survive by currying favor with those who are contemptuous.
The left has already said it is making lists to prevent Trump administration personnel from getting jobs in the private sector. What’s to stop them or their allies in the media and corporate America from doing the same to any of us?
Is there any apparent limiting principle that will keep us from developing a CCP-style “social credit system with Western characteristics” — as my Federalist colleague Sumantra Maitra – has put it — whereby private enterprises grade us on ideology and determine what we can and cannot do based on how closely we hew to its ideology?
In a world where politics has become all-pervasive, virtue-signaling demands not only disavowing but punishing the 74 million enablers of what the left has been asserting for years is Nazism. As in so many other matters, they have been projecting onto the right what the left itself endorses.
If you accede to the view that anything that challenges the prevailing progressive orthodoxy constitutes violence, then you will take any means necessary to snuff it out. There are an awful lot of true believers, useful idiots, cynics, and cowed people across American life seemingly willing to adhere to such a principle. It will likely push us to ideological segregation, which will only further fuel hostilities, strife, and chaos.
America’s Cold Civil War will only heat up as those with all the power take precisely the wrong lessons from the Capitol Hill riot and, rather than seeking to represent millions of Americans and address their concerns, simply chooses to punish or silence them.
Ben Weingarten is a Federalist senior contributor, senior fellow at the London Center for Policy Research, and fellow at the Claremont Institute. He was selected as a 2019 Robert Novak Journalism fellow of the Fund for American Studies, under which he is currently working on a book on U.S.-China policy. You can find his work at benweingarten.com, and follow him on Twitter Benjamin Weingarten
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